Store-service apparatus



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No. 462,906. Patented Nov. 10,1891.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SELDEN A. BAILEY, OF NEV LONDON, CONNECTICUT.

STORE-SERVICE APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 462,906, dated November 10, 1891.

Application filed September 3, 1891. Serial No. 404,620. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, SELDEN A. BAILEY, a citizen of the United States ot' America, residing at New London, in the county of New London and State of `Connecticut, United States of America, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Store-Service Apparatus, of which the following is a specication. a

The objects of this invention are to effect the stoppage of the carrier Without injury thereto under the different degrees of force with which it is moved upon its way, to prevent rebounding thereof, and to enable it to be thrown out with facility from a terminal station.

This invention consists, principally, of a trap, substantially as hereinafter set forth and claimed, which is sufficiently yielding to receivea carrier thrown with a light impulse, and which has a series of successive frictional contact-surfaces whereby the movement of the carrier will be arrested without impact or rebound when thrown over the way with a violent force. j

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a plan of a section of a store-service track, a cash-carrier thereon, and the trap for stopping and holding said carrier fixed to said track. Fig. 2 represents a side elevation thereof, partly in section, the carrier being within the trap. Fig. 3 represents a plan of this improved apparatus, one set of springtingers being omitted from the trap. Fig. 4 represents a transverse section of the holder for fastening the trap to the track. Fig. 5 representsa plan of a section of a track enibodying this improved apparatus, the carrier being shown as adapted for con veyin g parcels, and the cage for stopping said carrier as located on the carrier, the standards with which it engages being fastened to the way. Fig. 6 represents a plan View of the form of apparatus illustrated in Fig. 5.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures.

The way l0 may be of any form adapted for store-service apparatus, that shown being an ordinary single-wire track. This track is stretched from station to station between dependent, upright, or other supports in any suitable manner, which need not be herein illustrated or described.

A carrier 20, of any suitable construction, for conveying cash or other articles is used in connection with this improved store-service apparatus. The carrier illustrated in Figs. l, 2, and 3 is a cash-carrier, and as therein shown comprises a top plate`2l, a cashboX 22, detachablyconnected by a bayonetjoint or otherwise to said plate, forked standards 23 and 24, attached tothe upper side of said plate, and grooved wheels 25 and 2G, journaled in the upper ends of said standards and adapted to engage the wireway. A trap for gradually stopping the carrier at a receiving-station comprises two spring-fingers y 3l and 32, disposed adjacent to each other,

forming a skeleton-pocket 33, and flaring diverging jaws 3l and 35 atthe outer end of said pocket. The spring-fingers are preferably inclined outward laterally for a short distance from their sockets from the points a to the points b, thence extend parallel, or nearly so, with each other from the points l) to the points o, and thence bend inward to a meeting or touching point (l, forming the pocket, which is preferably somewhat longer than the cashcarrier. The spring-fin gers then flare outward slightly from the points d to the points c, forming the diverging-jaws, and thence extend laterally and upwardly from the points e to their outer extremities, forming guides 36 and 37 for directing the cash-carrier into the jaws of the trap. The fingers are also curved or inclined downward, preferably, from a point g near the outer end of the pocket to a point 7L beyond the jaws, forming horizontal contact-surfaces 3S forfrictional contact with the top of the carrier, the sides of the jaws forming vertical contact surfaces for frictional contact with the standards of the, carrier. Secondary spring-lingers 40 and 41 extend outward from their socketsto points near the outer end of the pocket 33, formed by the primary spring-fingers, beingslightly bent laterally or iiare'd from their sockets to their outer ends. 'lhese secondary spring-fingers are looped over the primaryspring-iingers,being bent backward and inward and forming inwardly-frictional lips 43 and 44: at or about the center of the pocket 33. These secondary IDO fingers are bent outward at the inner ends of the loops which pass over the primary fingers, forming a secondary pocket 45 for engaging the first standard of the carrier. A reverse loop 46 unites the two secondary fingers and forms the tapered inner end of the secondary pocket and springs downward into frictional contact with the top of the carrier. Both of 'these secondary fingers are preferably cornposed of wirein one piece. A suitable holder 50 is provided for attaching the trap to the way or to the carrier. The holder herein shown consists of a tapered cylinder 5l, provided with longitudinal peripheral grooves 52 and 53 at its'sides and a peripheral groove 54 at its top and a shell 55, adaptedA to fitover said tapered cylinder, said, shell being; provided witha clamping-screw 56. Thewireway l0 is passed through the groove 53 and clamped therein by the clamping-screw 56, and the shanlsof the primary and secondary springffingersare inserted in the grooves53 and54 andheld therein by the shell 55. 'The shell. 55 is-providedatits rearend with ears 57, towhich supporting or guy wires 58 are attached.

In theform of` trap illustrated in Eig. 3 the secondary spring-fingersare omitted. In some cases the primary springffingers, with' their doublecont'apct surfaces acting laterallyy and vertically, will be sufficientasa, stop mechanism; but" in thatcase theyy should be. constructedoftempered steel, whereas `when used in conjunction,l with, the secondary springwire.

I n theuse ofV this.` improved store-service apparatus thecarrier-when not iniuse isheld in thepocket 33, formed-.by the spring-fingers 3l and` 32, as illustrated inr liigs.' l, 2, and 3,

and oneofits standards is. also held in the.

secondary pocketV 45, asshown in Eigs. l and 2, whenthe .secondary spring-fingersare ern-` ployed. When the carrieris desiredfor serviceitsloadisplaced therein, and an impulse of thehand sendsit on its mission, the trap opening freelyA to permit it to passent. When it'reaches itsd'estinationlthe front standard thereof, enters between the diverging-jaws34 andf35, and spreads the primary spring-iingerslaterally. At the saine time the top .plate 2,1 of the carrier engages. the -downwardlycurved; portion ofthe spring-fingers and the.

combined lateraland vertical pressuresthus exerted upon the carrier partially arrest its movement. After the first standard passes thetjawsof` the primary spring-fingers' and entersZthe pocket'33, formedV by said ngers.

it encounters thefrictional resistance of ythe curved` lips43 and 44, and the downward pressureof the connecting loop 4 6 of the sec ondary-jawsf40 and 4l, and at Athe same time the second standard is engaged by the jaws of After the second standardreaches the widest portion of the secondary pocket and the carrier comes to a rest.

fingersthey maybe-.composed of heavy brassl If the carrier ismoving with great` violence, so that its momentum is not entirelytaken out on lreaching the point above specified, the tapering end of the secondary pocket Will cause a frictional resistance upon the first standard, whichl will take out Whatever mo- 'Ihe trap thus presents in the primary fingers two series of frictional contaret-surfaces acting simultaneously in directions at right angles to each other, and in the secondary fingers three series of contactsurfaces acting simultaneously and successively in different directions.

Ijn theA form illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6, the

.interlocking parts are reversed, the standkards 23 and 24, being attached toa friction; lplate 2li', fastened, tothe way, andthet'rapt) Theoperation, 85 of, thisspecic f orln of the.ilmproveni'entwill;V

being attached to thecarrier'.

be obviouswithout an.explicitdescniption,

The apparatus hereiudesribedis vrysimple and economical in,constnuetionanddura ble in` use. It isnotliable to gety out of.` or; der, and therefore it does not require frequent repairs. 'llhe tension of thetrap is suchfthat theA ca rrier may be thrownwith great violence without being injured or caused. to-r rebound, and yet. when the carrier is. thrown.. with-a light impulse it willy pass between the l and beheld by thetrap.

I claim as my inventionl. In av store-service apparatus, the., combinationofV a way, acarrier` adapted.v to trayel thereon, and two"springffingers,v forl stopping. and, holdingsaid carrier, said-y ngershaving vertically ir'lclinf` frictional contact faces and laterally-diverging. jaws.

2. In a4 store-.service apparatus, thev combinationof, a Way, aearrieradaptedto travel thereon, and a trap comprising twov springfingers forming anelongated pocket landdaterally-diverging jaws at4 the mouth thereof, said jawsbeing also .inclinedy vertically, sub: stantially as described. Y 4

3; In avstore-servicc apparatus, the combination of away, acarrier adapted to travel thereon, and twospring-ngers for. stopping` and holdingvsaidcarrier, said iingershaving vertically lnclined frictional contact faces Jaws IOO IIO

andlaterally-diverging jaws, said jawsbeing provided with upturnedguidesat theirouter ends.

4. Ina store-service apparatus, the combination of a way, acarrier adapted to. travelthereon, and twospring-fingers for stoppingv and holdingsaid carrier, saidv fingers having laterally-diverging jaws. and uptu rr'iedguides-l at the outer ends thereof.

5. A trap for store-service apparatus, comprising twospring-tingers provided withvertically-inclined andi laterallyfdiverging.jaws forming vertical and horizontal frictional contact-surfaces, and a holder forsaid fingers.

6. In a store-service apparatus, the combi,-

ln ation of a way, a. carrier adapted` to travel. thereon, and a trap consisting of twofspringf fingers forming an elongated pocket and diverging jaws at the mouth thereof, and two supplemental spring-lingers provided with curved contact-faces.

7. In a storeserviee apparatus, the combination of a way, a carrier adapted to travel thereon, and a trap consisting of two springiingers forming an elongated pocket and diverging jaws at the mouth thereof, and two supplemental spring-fingers provided with curved contact-faces, said supplemental ngers having a downwardly-extending loop.

8. In a store-service apparatus, the combination of a way, a carrier adapted to travel thereon, and a trap for stopping and holding said carrier, said trap consisting of two bent spring-fingers forming a pocket and diverg- SELDEN A. BAILEY.

Witnesses:

F. C, SoMEs, C. A. WEED. 

